Typographical composing machine



A ril 1 1927. p c. A. ALBRECHT TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE Filed Nov. 5, 1925 Patented Apr. 19, i927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

CHRISTIAN AUGUSTUS ALBRECHT, OE BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOB. TO MERGE N- THALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A COMPANY OI! YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL GOMPOSING MACHINE.

Application filed November 3, 1925, Serial No. 66,470, and in Germany February .4, 1925.

In typographical composing machines it has already been proposed to provide for the conversionv of a machine with a given number of magazines into a machine with a different number of magazines. For this purpose a special supporting frame has been provided in which the magazines and if necessary their respective base frames, are movably arranged and the shifting devices serving to bring these. magazines alternatively into operative position are likewise arranged on the supporting frame. It is thus possible to exchange the supporting frame together with the magazines and the shifting devices as a single entity. This arrangement has its special advantages because it renders it possible to assemble and adjust outside the machine the whole entity comprising supporting frames, magazines and escapement mechanism. It is, however, possible to provide suitable means for enabling the adjustment of the magazines relatively to each other and relatively to the sup porting frame to beeli'ected outside the machine so that the same shifting devices may be used without any ditliculty for different supporting frames with different magazines. For instance, the assembling of the supporting frame with the magazines and the respective base plates may be effected. out side the machine in a special assembling stand which carries the shifting devices, and upon this assembling stand the exact position of the magazines relatively to each other and to the supporting frame can be adjusted so that the supporting frame can be placed in a machine without any difficulty and will accurately fit, provided, of course, that the shifting devices in the machine are arranged in a similar manner to those on the assembling stand, which is an easy matter when the machine is first erected.

In such a ca e a further advantage is obtained by not having to substitute the shiftingdevices when changing from a supporting frame with a specific number of 1nagazines to a supporting frame with a differill) ent number of magazines, the change being thus made at considerably less expense and with greater convenience.

In such a case the construction, with the supporting frame, can also be devised so that the shifting devices are arranged for the maximum number of magazines, additional magazines being simply inserted into the machine by placing them upon the magazines originally installed.

The drawing illustrates diagraminatically in side elevation a constructional form of the present invention. i

In the drawing, a is the machine frame constructed in the usual manner and carrying a cross bar b. Upon this cross bar is placed the magazine supporting frame c,the

.latterbearing upon the said bar in the usual manner by means of set screws (Z through which its position f re-and-aft of the machine can be adjusted. At its lowermost extremity, the supporting frame a engages with the guide or jaws 6 provided on the machine frame a. Set. screws 6 6 are provided in the guide a, for accurately adjusting the lower end of the supporting frame 0. The magazines A, B, rest upon the supporting frame 0 together with the respective magazine base frames A B The magazines A, B, together with the base frames A B are movable relatively to the frame 0 in a direction perpendicular to theirtop and bottom surfaces, so that, in the usual manner, they can be raised and lowered rclatively to the assembler guide S and distributor D; in the drawing it is the lower magazine .B which is represented in the operative position. To bring the upper magazine A into the operative position, the magazines must be lowered, as is already well understood. In order to guide the magazines in their upward and downward movement. guiding bars 7, g, or equivalent devices, are provided at the sides of the frame 0, i.,e. fourin all, and rollers it. pivotally mounted on the magazine base frames A B engage these bars and prevent the magazines from slidingfoiuvard. The barsj, 5 may bejprovided with stops which determine the topmost and lowermost positions of the magazines.

The shifting of the magazines is effected by devices which are mounted on the machine frame. In the construction illustrated, a cam z is provided, for the purpose, which is fast upon a shaft is, to which is also secured a hand lever m which, when rocked, serves to turn the said cam. The lowermost magazine fram 13 engages the earn 2' by a roller '11, and this serves for supporting and moving the magazines attheir lower ends, the upper ends of said magazines being sin'iilarly dealt with by a lever 0 which, at its upper end has a. roller 0 which bears against the underside of a track 0 fast to the lowermost magazine frame it. At its lower end the lever 0 turns about a pivot 1 fast to the machine frame, and intermediate its ends it is connected with the cam by means of a link 9 so that when the cam is turned it will simultaneously rock the lever 0. The lever 0 and ram 1, are so devised and connected that when moving together as just explained, they will raise the magazines or allow them to descend in a direction perpendicular to their upper and lower surfaces.

The locking of the magazine column in the different operative positions may be effected in any desired manner, for example, as shown in the drawing, the hand lever m may be provided with an aperture 1' through which may be passed a pin for insertion into one or other of a number of holes .9 in the machine frame.

The magazines are loosely stacked one above another each directly upon its respective base frame A or B.

As the distance separating adjacent ma azines must be accurately determined, it eing necessary for such distance to correspond exactly with the shifting movement they may receive at any given moment, said distance is capable of being regulated as, for example, by set screws t provided on the frame, say A of the magazine which forthe time being is uppermost, said screws resting upon the lower magazine. In this manner facilities are afforded for removing the magazines individually from the machine. If this be not desired the whole series of magazines may be rigidly connected together as a rigid entity as by means of bars at the sides placed at the required distances apart. In the constructional example illustrated, the cam 2' as well as the lever 0 as will be seen from the drawings, are so constructed that an adjustment in three different ositions is rendered possible (three hoes 8 being provided for this purpose) although two magazines only have been represented in the drawings. If there are only two magazines, two positions only would be re quired by the shifting devices. If, on the other hand, there are three magazines, all three shifting positions will be used. If the machine has to acconnnodate more than three magazines, the cam i and lever 0 must be so arranged that the desired number of shifting positions will be provided for, and to that end the cam i and lever 0 may be substituted by any other means for raising and lowering the magazines.

When changes of magazine are made, the supporting frame 0 remains in the machine frame. The guide (3 prevents the frame from shifting its position when the magazines are raised or lowered. If required, a further stop may also be provided to prevent shifting of the upper end of the frame 0, for example. as shown in the drawings, the said frame may be provided with a prtr jection u adapted to engage with the bar Z).

Whenit is desired to convert a machine with one or two magazii'iee into a machine with two or three magazines respectively. the frame 0, with all the magazines located thereon is merely lifted off the machine by first rocking the whole magazinecolumn a little towards the rear and then lifting same up bodily. I. new magazine column can then be introduced which can be actuated without any difliculty by the existing shifting devices, seeing that the frame 1: together with the respective magazines has already been accurately adjusted outside the machine on a special stand. The arrangement may also be so constructed that for a one or two magazine machine, provision made at the commencement for a frame 0 adapted to receive three or more magazines. In this case. it is possible to readily convert the one or two magazine machine into a machine with three or more magazines, the new magazines being merely placed in the guides and 5/ over the existing magazines.

The details of the invention may be varied. inasmuch as different arrangements may be employed for shifting the nmgazines; for example, iinitead of the lever 0 being c1nployed, toggles may be used pivoted about the points 7) at the two sides of the frame a, and actingon the frame B through forks which admit of the ready dissociation of said frame and toggles. The cam and lover 0 or toggles are preferably duplicated, one set being mounted on each side of the magazine column. Enitable means may also be employed in the, known manner for balancing the weight of the magazines and thus facilitating shifting.

The construction of the frame 0 varied accordim to whether it is to be used for supporting one, two or more magazines. In other words, it can be provided with stops, projections or the like in order to hold the respecti ve' magazines accordingto their number, in a higher or lower :position in the machine.

In the constructional example given, the shifting devices are positively mounted in the machine frame. If a particular shifting device is provided for a certain number of magazines, two or three for example, it is possible for a larger number of magazines, four to six for exam le, to adopt another type of shifting device and to mount the shifting devices themselves in separate frames or bearings, which, for example, may take the form of the bearings shown for the shaft k, these being first attached to the machine frame by means of screws, pins or the like. This arrangement makes it possible for the whole of the shifting devices to be placed in a separate or special frame which may be inserted into the machine frame as a separate entity, so that in such an arrangement, the machine would comprise a main frame, a special frame for the shifting devices and a separate supporting frame for the magazines.

Having described my invention, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A typographical composing machine in which a plurality of magazines are supported by a sepa ate supporting; frame relatively to which they can be shifted alternatively into operative position and in which the magazines are guided in their shifting movements by guiding means on the supporting frame, characterized by the fact that the supporting frame merely carries the magazines and their guiding means whilst the magazine shifting devices are located in the machine frame proper independently of the magazine supporting frame.

A typographical composing machine according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the shifting devices are so constructed that, without alteration, they are adapted for use in connection with different numbers of magazines.

3. A typographical composing machine acciirding to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the shifting devices as a whole are arranged in a separate frame independent of the supportingframe for the magazines.

4, A typographical composing machine according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the magazines, which may be provided in the known manner with magazine frames are superposedly and loosely arranged on the supporting frame (0) and are held in guides, adjustable stops (If) being provided for regulating the distance separating adjacent magazines.

5. A typographical composing machine according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that special means such as stops are provided through which the supporting frame on introduction into the machine, is secured against being lifted off during the shifting operation.

6. A typographical composing machine according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the shifting devices located on the machine frame are dctachably connected with the lowermost magazine.

7. A typographical composing machine according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the shifting devices located on the machine frame are detachably connected with the lowermost magazine through its supporting frame.

8. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with the main frame of the machine, of a magazine supporting frame, means detachably securing the said frame to the main frame, a plurality of magazines movably mounted in the magazine support ing frame, guiding means on the magazine supporting frame for the magazines, and magazine moving means permanently con nected to the main frame and with which the magazines are engaged with a capacity for ready disengagement.

9. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with the main frame of the machine, of a magazine supporting frame, means detachably securing the said frame to the main frame, a plurality of magazines movably mounted in the magazine supporting frame, a base frame beneath each magazine, co-operating magazine'guiding means on the base frames and maga zine supporting frame, and magazine moving means permanently connected to the main frame and on which the lowermost base frame rests with a capacity for ready disengagement. i

10. In a typographical composing ma chine, the combination with the main frame of the machine, of a magazine supporting frame, means detachably and adjustably se curing the said frame to the main frame, a plurality of magazines movably mounted in the magazine supporting frame, guiding means on the magazine supporting frame for the magazines, and magazine moving means permanently connected to the main frame and with which the magazines are engaged with a capacity for ready disengagement.

11. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with the main frame of the machine, of a magazine supporting frame, means detachably and adjustably securing the said frame to the main frame, a plurality of magazines movably mounted in the magazine supporting frame, a base frame beneath each magazine, co-operating magazine-guiding means on the base frames and magazine supporting frame, and magazine moving means permanently connected to the main frame and on which the lowermost base frame rests with a capacity for ready ldiseng'agement.

12. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with the main frame of the machine, of a magazine supporting frame, means detachably securing the said frame to the main frame, a plurality of magazines movably mounted in the magazine supporting frame, a base frame beneath each magazine. eo-operating magazine-guiding means on the base frames and magazine supporting frame, magazine moving means permanently connected to the main frame and on which the lowermost base frame rests with a capacity for ready disengagement and means adjustable in an upper base frame for varyinp; the distance between the magazine on that base frame and the magazine next be low it.

In testimony whereof T have affixed my signature hereto.

CHRISTIAN AUGUSTUS ALBRECHT. 

